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Horse World Online - free online horse breeding game

About the game...

Horse World Online is an immersive web-based horse training and breeding simulation game. Your story begins on a small farm, with a few adopted horses. Selectively breed your horses to unlock new breeds. Train your horses to compete in a wide variety of competitions or specialize in just one.

Learn new skills to advance your character and build up your farm with new pastures and stables. Breed your stable of champions and saddle up for a journey where your decisions shape the destiny of your virtual equestrian adventure.

Join an inclusive, supportive, and welcoming community of horse lovers who are all realizing their virtual dream of owning a horse farm.

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Features

Truly dynamic horses with nearly infinite genetic combinations.

  • Unique conformation for each horse; shape every detail through selective breeding which allows for development of beautiful horses but also weird and unusual ones.
  • Foals grow in height and change into adults as they mature.
  • Exercise improves physical fitness and builds visible muscle; feeding can make a horse heavier or lighter.
  • Watch as pregnant mares' bellies grow throughout their pregnancy.
  • Manes, forelocks, and tails grow in both length and thickness.
  • Coat colours change throughout a horses' lifetime including progressive greying, varnish roan, sooty, silver, and flaxen.

Advanced virtual horse breeding simulation.

  • Over 330 breeds available
  • Intricate breeding system
  • Detailed genetic conformation, performance trait, and coat colour inheritance system using realistic and simulated genetics.
  • The unique breeding system allows you to unlock new breeds through selective cross breeding following historic breed combinations.
  • Advanced white marking pattern generation featuring dynamic patterns uniquely created for every horse individually.
  • Save photos of your horse throughout its lifetime so you can document its growth and changes.

A wide variety of disciplines to compete in including racing, show jumping, dressage, reining and more.

  • Train your horses and compete in 22 different disciplines.
  • Earn titles as proof your horse is a Champion, Grand Champion or better.
  • Set or break world records.
  • Competitions run all day long and there are hundreds to choose from.
  • Host your own competitions.

Build and customize your horse dream farm with barns, horse pastures, and lots more.

  • Choose from a variety of different styles and sizes of barns and pastures to add to your farm.
  • Decorate your farm, barn interiors and pasture interiors with all kinds of natural elements, and more including seasonal/holiday decorations.
  • Expand the size of your farm to build up your equine estate.
  • Choose for horses to live in barns or live in pastures.
  • Produce and sell hay from your pastures.
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
The game is completely free to play! It’s funded through advertisements and optional purchases by players like you, while keeping with ethical monitization practices.
There is no app, however the game is created to run well on all modern phones, tablets, and computers. No download is required!
All modern browsers are supported but we recommend Chrome, Edge, or Safari. Firefox can occasionally have performance issues when viewing a pasture or barn with a lot of horses.
You control the speed of time! If you want to progress through hundreds of generations of breeding in a short period of time, you absolutely can. But if you’d rather enjoy the game at a more leisurely pace and focus on one horse at a time, you absolutely can. You get to control how fast time goes by, which also means if you’re away from the game for a while your horses will be ready and waiting for you when you come back.
Absolutely! It will take you some time to build a farm that large but it’s possible to have a huge breeding empire.
A horses’ genetics determine its conformation. Some players choose to breed strange looking or weird horses just for the fun of it. If you want your horse to better resemble it’s breed then you’ll need to selectively breed your horses and improve their appearance with each generation until they reach the desirable breed traits.
News
News & Updates

HWO Birthday Celebration Final Week!

By larissar on November 22


Horse World Online Birthday Celebration Final Week!

It's the last week of our 20th birthday celebrations and we've still got more gifts for everyone!

This has been a wonderful birthday month for us, and we hope everyone has loved the gifts we've been handing out. HWO has been a passion project for us over these last 20 years. For most of that time we've only been able to work on the game outside of our regular jobs but this past year we've been able to dedicate our time fully to continue development of the game and make it into the best online horse breeding game. We have so many ideas for the future and we can't wait to share them all with you as we continue to add more features and fix existing issues.

Your support means so much to us from buying player bonuses or pony tokens, subscribing to paid premium, following us on Patreon or even just sharing the game with your friends! With continue support from you all we can keep developing this game for many years into the future. So thank you all so much!

We've also been featured on The Mane Quest blog, check out this awesome article: https://www.themanequest.com/blog/2024/ ... me-history

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What’s a birthday celebration without gifts? We’ve got gifts for everyone! Four weeks of gifts are planned with a new gift released on Fridays throughout the month of November. Make sure to check in each week to collect your gift. There's a new link in the side navigation where you can find your gifts waiting for you to collect.

This week’s gifts is a beautiful rearing horse hedge decoration for your farm with flowers and glittery sparkles floating in the air around it. Oh, and of course we can't forget the pony tokens... this week we're giving everyone a whopping 250 pony tokens!!

We’re also running a sale on Player Bonuses, for the entire month you can enjoy 25% off any Player Bonus!

Don't forget to collect your Week 4 Gift from the new link in the left side navigation!

HWO Birthday Celebration Week 3!

By larissar on November 15


Horse World Online Birthday Celebration Week 3!

It's the third week of our 20th birthday celebrations and we've got more gifts for everyone!

This week we wanted to reminisce about our old horse artwork and share how far we’ve progressed since the game first launched 20 years ago.

We’ve seen a few major artwork updates over the years and experimented with a few techniques that never ended up being used. Our first horses were simple line drawings, with 10 different “base” horses, and the only the colours/markings changed on the artwork. Eventually we moved on to using Macromedia/Adobe Flash and updated the artwork to use line drawings with some simple detail shading. We even experimented with 3D horses using Macromedia Director but unfortunately Director was a short-lived product, and the 3D horses never actually made it into the game.

Then in 2014 we re-launched the game using our dynamic conformation horses. No longer did we need to maintain 10 different base horses, now all the horses could be created using just one base. We’re really looking forward to the new updated artwork we’re planning to launch for 2025, what amazing changes we’ve seen over our 20-year history.

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What’s a birthday celebration without gifts? We’ve got gifts for everyone! Four weeks of gifts are planned with a new gift released on Fridays throughout the month of November. Make sure to check in each week to collect your gift. There's a new link in the side navigation where you can find your gifts waiting for you to collect.

This week’s gifts include a new celebration quarter sheet, and two celebration polo wraps to match the quarter sheet and last weeks saddlepads, and 75 pony tokens!!

We’re also running a sale on Player Bonuses, for the entire month you can enjoy 25% off any Player Bonus!

Don't forget to collect your Week 3 Gift from the new link in the left side navigation!

HWO Birthday Celebration Week 2!

By larissar on November 08


Horse World Online Birthday Celebration Week 2!

It's the second week of our 20th birthday celebrations and we've got more gifts for everyone!

Twenty years ago we were young, bright eyed and optimistic about the future of HWO. We were in active testing and development, and preparing to open the doors for everyone to join us. The official birthday launch for HWO is November 13th, or at least we're pretty sure it is, Ha Ha. You see it seems we never actually wrote down what date the game opened. I can say with certainty that the domain name was registered on October 7, 2004 but it was still a few weeks before we launched the game. The earliest archived page in the Internet Archives is dated November 13, 2004. So, we've decided long ago to celebrate that as the birthdate of HWO.

So this Wednesday make sure to give a little Cheer for us! It's been a very long, and sometimes very bumpy road, but we're so happy to be here and so thrilled that you all love this game as much as we do.

So, Cheers! Here's to many more years together!

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What’s a birthday celebration without gifts? We’ve got gifts for everyone! Four weeks of gifts are planned with a new gift released on Fridays throughout the month of November. Make sure to check in each week to collect your gift. There's a new link in the side navigation where you can find your gifts waiting for you to collect.

This week’s gifts include 3 party celebration saddle pads and 50 pony tokens!!

We’re also running a sale on Player Bonuses, for the entire month you can enjoy 25% off any Player Bonus!

Don't forget to collect your Week 2 Gift from the new link in the left side navigation!

Happy 20th Birthday Horse World Online!

By larissar on November 01


Happy 20th Birthday Horse World Online!

We are celebrating 2 decades of virtual horses, and the amazing wonderful players who’ve been a part of our journey. Horse World Online is among the oldest horse games that are still running, and we’ve got tons more planned for the future.

This past year, since we’ve both been able to dedicate ourselves full-time to running HWO, we’ve accomplished a lot of things. From new servers, new front-end code, new back-end code, many gameplay updates and now we’re working on updating the horse artwork so we can add in more colour and white marking genetics including Frame Over, Splash, Sabino, Dominant White and more!

Our little game has been a quiet pioneer in browser based horse breeding games. Many don’t realize this but HWO was the first game to offer dynamically generated horse images, and currently the only game to offer browser based dynamic conformation with animated growth changes.

We’re excited about what the future holds, especially when it comes to our horse artwork update!

Here’s some previews of what the new horses will look like, and two of them are testing out our planned posing system by posing their heads and neck.
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We hope everyone is as excited as us about these upcoming changes. We can’t give you a release date yet as there’s still a lot of work to be done, but you can follow along with us on our Patreon for weekly updated, and as soon as we have a release date, we’ll make sure to tell you all!

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What’s a birthday celebration without gifts? We’ve got gifts for everyone! Four weeks of gifts are planned with a new gift released on Fridays throughout the month of November. Make sure to check in each week to collect your gift. There's a new link in the side navigation where you can find your gifts waiting for you to collect.

This week’s gifts include 2 party wearables and 25 pony tokens, but we’re only just getting started 😊

We’re also running a sale on Player Bonuses, for the entire month you can enjoy 25% off any Player Bonus!

Don't forget to collect your Week 1 Gift from the new link in the left side navigation!

Happy Halloween

By larissar on October 19


Halloween on Horse World Online

Halloween has returned and with that we've got spooky barns, gnarled trees, pumpkins, jack-o-lanterns and more available in the farm building market.

New this year we've added in three Black Cats! One kitty sleeps during the day, waiting for night before stalking the yard. One kitty sits and watches, while the third kitty prowls around looking for fun and mischief!

The Tack Shop is stocked full of fun costumes for your horses to wear, perhaps a paddock parade is needed on your farm? Enjoy this fun holiday by dressing up your horses and your farms, and maybe bring home a black cat or two.



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